FReeper Canteen ~ It's Halloween: Trick or Treat!! ~ 31 October 2013

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[Kathy in Alaska]

~ FR Canteen Presents ~

~ It's Halloween: Trick or Treat!! ~

WELCOME JIG

Two little girls dance with anticipation as they wait for a welcoming home ceremony to begin on Fort Steward, Ga., March, 7, 2013. Fifty soldiers, assigned to the 3rd Infantry Division's 1st Battalion, 9th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, returned home after being deployed for more than six months in Afghanistan. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Richard Wrigley

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CANINE SALUTE

Linda Odierno, left, wife of Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno, and her dog, Tootsie, receive a special salute award from retired Army Capt. Leslie N. Smith during the USO of Metropolitan Washington’s 31st awards dinner in Arlington, Va., March 14, 2013. Odierno received the award for her volunteer service in pet therapy. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Teddy Wade

FINAL FLIGHT

The last C-130E Hercules on Hurlburt Field, Fla., March 4, 2013, prepares for its final flight before retirement. The Hercules has been in service in the Air Force for more than 40 years and flew during the Vietnam War. U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Christopher Callaway

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Monster Mash

Rock & Roll Graveyard

Halloween Is

Trick or Treat

Bo Meets The Monster

FIRE MISSION

Army soldiers prepare for a fire mission with a 155 mm howitzer during the regiment's mission rehearsal exercise in Grafenwoehr, Germany, March 12, 2013. The rehearsal exercises develop combat skills, counterinsurgency tactics and interoperability among military forces of the U.S. and its partner nations before a scheduled deployment. The soldiers are assigned to 2nd Cavalry Regiment. U.S. Army photo by Gertrud Zach

NIMROZ SECURITY

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Michael Skowronski provides security en route to a meeting in Nimroz province, Afghanistan, March 13, 2013. Skowronski, a machine gunner, is assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Tammy K. Hineline

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The Purple People Eater (For you, Mr Tonkin)

Voodoo Voodoo

Werewolves In London

Ghostbusters

Witch Doctor

AFGHAN COMPOUND

U.S. female soldiers secure an Afghan compound while other soldiers meet with Afghan elders in the Spin Boldak district in Afghanistan's Kandahar province, March 3, 2013. The soldiers are assigned to the 2nd Infantry Division's Female Engagement Team 6, 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, and 519th Military Intelligence Battalion. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Shane Hamann

MEDICAL MOMENT

U.S. Army Pfc. Laci Lognion, right, inventories her medical equipment while U.S. Army Capt. Ivonne Cartagena, center, adjusts medical items during a pre-flight exercise on Jalalabad Airfield in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province, March 13, 2013. Lognion, a flight paramedic, and Cartagena, a critical care nurse, are assigned to the 101st Airborne Division's Company C, 2nd Battalion, 149th General Support Aviation Brigade, 1st Brigade Combat Team. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class John D. Brown

HELICOPTER ROUTINE

U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Bethany Bump conducts her pre-flight routine in a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter and checks with her crew chief before a mission on Jalalabad Airfield in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province, March 13, 2013. Bump, a helicopter pilot, is assigned to the 101st Airborne Division's Company C, 3rd Battalion, 501st Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Brigade Combat Team. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class John D. Brown

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[The Mayor]

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Eyes Of Love
October 31, 2013

Many people who come to Marc Salem’s stage shows think he can read minds. But he makes no such claim, saying he is not a psychic or magician, but a close observer of people. He told writer Jennifer Mulson, “We live in a world that’s mostly invisible to us because we’re not paying attention to things . . . . I’m very sensitive to what people give off” (The Gazette, Colorado Springs).

It’s interesting to note what Jesus saw as He met people. His encounter with a wealthy young man seeking eternal life is recorded in the gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Mark includes this telling detail, “Then Jesus, looking at him, loved him” (Mark 10:21). Some people may have seen this young man as an arrogant person (vv.19-20) while others might have envied his wealth, but Jesus looked at him with love.

We often focus on the man’s sad departure and apparent unwillingness to give up his riches and follow Jesus (v.22). When the disciples wondered aloud about the difficulty of a rich man entering the kingdom of God (v.26), “Jesus looked at them and said, ‘With men it is impossible, but not with God; for with God all things are possible’” (v.27).

Today, Jesus sees us through eyes of love and invites us to follow Him.

Down from His splendor in glory He came,
Into a world of woe;
Took on Himself all my guilt and my shame,
Why should He love me so? —Roth

God has both an all-seeing eye and all-forgiving heart.

Read: Mark 10:17-27

Then Jesus, looking at him, loved him. —Mark 10:21

Bible in a Year:
Jeremiah 22-23; Titus 1

[SkyDancer]

BOO!!!!!

[AZamericonnie]

Supporting our Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Airmen, and Coast Guardsmen
at more than 1,000 places across the U. S. and around the world.

Brad Fletcher - To All Our Mothers Children

Due South - The Good Guys

Perry Nunley - When Freedom Rings

FReeper musical artists. Let me know if you have a submission.

[smokingfrog]

[SandRat]

Trick or Treat

[AZamericonnie]

Thank you Kathy for this evenings thread of our finest!

Cute graphics! *Hugs*

[Kathy in Alaska]

~ It's Halloween: Trick or Treat!! ~

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[Kathy in Alaska]

Hello Veterans, wherever you are!!

[Publius]

It’s time for the annual Halloween special at the Canteen. It’s time for the spooky side of classical music.

If you were to ask anyone from the Baby Boomer generation about the first drug trip set to music, the answer would be “Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” from 1967 by the Beatles. But 137 years before Lennon and McCartney, French composer Hector Berlioz set a drug trip to music. For the Beatles the drug was LSD; for Berlioz it was opium.

Berlioz titled the symphony, “Episode in the Life of an Artist”. The Artist, obsessed with The Beloved, takes an opium trip in which he has a series of dreams. The musical idea that drives it is one theme, representing The Beloved. At the time the Irish actress Harriet Smithson was the fixation of Berlioz’ obsession. Here is Leonard Bernstein explaining the theme.

Bernstein explains the idee fixe

The first movement, “Reveries and Passions”, starts with a long C minor introduction leading to a sonata exposition. The idee fixe is stated as a bare melody (5:15) and later is taken up by the full orchestra (7:38). The recap (10:44) is a joyous statement of the theme. Like a storm that has blown itself out, it ends quietly and solemnly.

The second movement (13:47), “A Ball”, is a waltz in A Major where the idee fixe shows up in 3/4 time (16:03).

The third movement (21:04), “In the Country”, in F Major, begins with a shepherd piping and answered by another shepherd in the distance. The idee fixe is unaccompanied when first heard (23:16). The movement is serene and peaceful at first, but disturbed by thoughts of The Beloved, leading to a violent climax (29:19). The woodwind theme that follows offers tranquility and desolation. At the end, the shepherd pipes (34:36); in the distance, there is only the rumble of thunder in answer.

The fourth movement (37:53), “March to the Scaffold”, features The Artist, who hallucinates that he has murdered The Beloved and is being marched to his date with France’s National Razor to be shortened by the length of a head. What is amazing is just what Berlioz achieves with something as simple as a run down a minor scale. It’s horror and grotesque ritual combined. At the end, the idee fixe is truncated by drum rolls – along with The Artist’s head. You’d think it would all end here. But wait! Berlioz goes into sudden death overtime!

The fifth movement (42:36), “Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath”, starts with strange murmurings in the forest from the orchestra. Then the idee fixe (43:58), a lewd travesty of itself, appears on the clarinet. It’s HER! She’s still alive! Dressed like the Whore of Babylon, or Lady Gaga, she flounces in. The witches’ round dance starts and stops, interrupted first by bells, then by tubas which sound the Dies irae, the Day of Wrath, from the Requiem Mass. A brass choir takes up the church theme. The round dance begins again in C Major, and is worked up as a canon. It is combined with the Dies irae, which is jazzed up. It all ends rousingly. The “trip” is over.

Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Bernstein conducting the National Orchestra of France

[Kathy in Alaska]

United States Marine Corps Band ~ National Anthem

[Kathy in Alaska]

The Mayor!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Janey!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Connie!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Publius, and thanks for the Halloween Musical Special. ((HUGS)

[Repeal The 17th]

Don’t do drugs.
You’ll end up like a thug.
You’ll make your mother sad,
and make your father mad.
Don’t do drugs.
Drugs are bad.

[laplata]

Hi Kathy! *Hugs*!

Those cookies sure look good.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Mayor, and thank you for today's sustenance for body and soul.

[left that other site]

I once attended a live performance of this, conducted by Leonard Bernstein, in which the guy on the bells was a half-beat LATE on his first entrance. He quickly caught up, but since I knew the piece by heart, I quickly switched my attention to Leonard, whose visage carried such a portrait of wrath and murder that this Witches Sabbath was even scarier than the original!

One of my all-time favorites, and i used to get the orchestral score out of the Boston Public Library and conduct it as it played on my Dad’s BIG stereo(Altec Lansing Voice-Of-The-Theater Speakers that were the “Sound of Cinarama”)

[SkyDancer]

Nice!!!!